Constituency
480. Cooch Behar
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-COOCH-BEHAR
FBL 50.5%won by 16.1%INC 34.4%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.5% to 16.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.9% between them, down from 96.2% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,81,865
Turnout
83.5%
Valid votes
8,19,360
Margin
1,32,232
16.14%
Candidates
5 contested · winner FBL- 1AMAR ROY PRADHANFBL · FBL4,14,03750.5%
- 2SABITA RAY (W)Indian National Congress · INC2,81,80534.4%
- 3BHABENDRA NATH BARMANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,06,25113.0%
- 4MAHENDRA NATH DASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP14,0811.7%
- 5NRIPEN KARJEEIndependent · IND3,1860.4%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–INC swing
- +9.6%
- FBL share
- 51.4% → 50.5%
- INC share
- 44.8% → 34.4%
- Turnout
- 85.1% → 83.5%